Kirsten E. Wood

Research and Teaching Interests:

Professor Wood's interests include the American South, women's history, gender, slavery, and African-American history. Her Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War (2004) reinterprets the political construct of mastery in the southeastern United States in light of slaveholding widows' distinctive legal, economic, and social position as "masters" of slaveholding households. In her current research, she is investigating the economic, social, political, and gender dimensions of tavern-keeping and tavern-going in the early republic and antebellum periods, with a particular eye to women tavern-keepers, workers, and patrons. She has also undertaken a historiographic survey of gender and slavery in the Americas. She has published and spoken on kinship among slaveholders, master-slave relations, gender and the southern economy, and Jacksonian politics.

Curriculum Vitae

COURSES

Spring 2008:
AMH 3141: U.S. History, 1790-1850
AMH 4561: Early American Women's History

Book:

	Kirsten E. Wood Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1998 (U.S. early 19th-century social history, gender, South, slavery) University Park, VH-207, 348-2803 woodk@fiu.edu
Research and Teaching Interests: Professor Wood's interests include the American South, women's history, gender, slavery, and African-American history. Her Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War (2004) reinterprets the political construct of mastery in the southeastern United States in light of slaveholding widows' distinctive legal, economic, and social position as "masters" of slaveholding households. In her current research, she is investigating the economic, social, political, and gender dimensions of tavern-keeping and tavern-going in the early republic and antebellum periods, with a particular eye to women tavern-keepers, workers, and patrons. She has also undertaken a historiographic survey of gender and slavery in the Americas. She has published and spoken on kinship among slaveholders, master-slave relations, gender and the southern economy, and Jacksonian politics. Curriculum Vitae COURSES Spring 2008: AMH 3141: U.S. History, 1790-1850 AMH 4561: Early American Women's History Book:
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